The platform with which Yolanda Díaz aspired to run for the Presidency of the Government will find itself in a legal limbo that compromises the conditions of transparency. To date, Sumar continues to operate as a mere association, a formula that is incompatible with the activity of the electoral platform or with the fines that were made explicit on April 2, when the Minister of Labor expressed her intentions to attend the next general elections as a candidate for the presidency of the Government.
It is not a mere formality. Political parties are subject to a special control regime by the Court of Accounts, a guarantee that Sumar does not currently comply with. The electoral platform of the Vice President of the Government is not a simple association but rather her mission, publicly declared, is fully political. This is also demonstrated by the latest CIS Barometer, which considered Sumar as an electoral alternative in its estimate, something that does not correspond to its current legal structure as it is neither a party nor a group of voters.
Sumar is also a company that will be involved in a financing process in which its promoters aspire to raise up to 100.000 euros, a figure that according to the organization itself is very close to being reached. The financing of political parties is subject to a regime of delivery of very specific accounts, especially since 2007. However, the Díaz association would be bypassing the economic audit thanks to a ruse that provides it with greater opacity and, also, a strategic advantage sober up your competitors. This is a typical informality of populism and political adventurism. In the event that Sumar becomes a political party, it will have to present an organizational chart that shows, for example, a list of positions and responsibilities in detail, as required by the Transparency Law. To date, Díaz's inability to agree with Podemos on some conditions of collaboration and the exact terms of the alliance have made it impossible to give a public account, and in due terms, of these extremes. In the future, Díaz will necessarily tend to dissolve the current association to later link it or not to the future structure that is presented to the elections.
From Sumar he defines himself as a "citizen movement", a rhetorical resource that can be used in informal contexts, but that is insufficient when what must be done is to comply with all the demands and guarantees imposed on all political parties. The laxity with which Díaz's association is operating, protected by a regiment that responds neither to the mission nor to publicly recognized activity, is worrisome. Everything indicates that, until the May elections pass, the Vice President of the Government will not be able to specify the legal status of her electoral platform. In this way, Díaz would be gaining time to be able to negotiate from a preferential position the architecture of the future party. It is an interested movement, even a legitimate one. What can never be justified is the lack of due transparency with the public and with the Court of Accounts from which, to date, the vice president's electoral platform is operating.
